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Better YIMBYs already exist, despite what you might have heard

For better or for worse, home ownership is part of the Australian Dream. The local YIMBY movement understands that, writes one of its key organisers.

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To build better cities, we need to build better YIMBYs

When your whole raison d’être is built on credulous premises, it’s time to get real. ‘Yes In My Backyard’ is a fine concept but needs smarts.

Crikey

In State Legislatures, Targeted Bills and Bipartisan Support Were Key To Passing Housing Reforms

Meanwhile, big, partisan "everything bagel" zoning reform bills that tried to squeeze through the entire YIMBY agenda floundered.

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A YIMBY Victory in Montana

Montana's sweeping new zoning reform is both good in itself and a potential model for cross-ideological cooperation on this issue elsewhere.

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California's Builders and YIMBYs at Loggerheads Over Bill Cracking Down on 'Unchecked Sprawl'

Activists who would like to see more housing built and people who build housing for a living would seem to be natural allies. A new bill in the California Legislature is driving them apart.

Reason

The YIMBY movement is shaking up Australian politics amid the housing affordability crisis

The call, both in Australia and overseas, for well-located, affordable urban housing is growing louder, but the NIMBY resistance movement still carries a degree of clout.

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New bill seeks to limit housing sprawl in fire- and flood-prone areas of California

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over the past half-century, new housing has spread into ever more far-flung parts of California – from luxury estates perched on remote hillsides to tightly packed subdivisions stretched over rural flatlands.

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Congress' $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Includes a Baby 'YIMBY' Grant Program

It needs some work.

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D.C. Zoning Officials Prepare a 'Racial Equity Tool' To Guide Zoning Decisions

Local YIMBY advocates express concern that the tool, as written, is overly vague and could be exploited to stop development.

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This Renegade California Developer Wants To Build a 2,300-Unit Megaproject in a NIMBY Stronghold

A never-before-used state law might make his plans bulletproof.

Reason

Are San Francisco's NIMBYs Finally Getting Their Comeuppance?

State housing officials have launched a first-ever investigation of the city's housing policies and practices, setting the stage for far more sweeping interventions.

Reason

Eliminating Single-Family Zoning Isn't the Reason Minneapolis Is a YIMBY Success Story

Housing production is rising and rents are falling. But newly legal duplexes and triplexes make up only a tiny fraction of new development.

Reason

Why Pro-Choice Blue States Should also be Pro-YIMBY

Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas argues that blue states can't give "refuge" to people fleeing abortion restrictions if they don't cut back on zoning restrictions that lead to sky-high housing costs.

Reason

AOC Is a Fake YIMBY

The New York congresswoman has endorsed much-needed zoning reform, but also raised typical NIMBY complaints about projects in her own backyard.

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